Bus crash on 10 Freeway in Alhambra injuries 8

ALHAMBRA — A transit bus careened out of control on a Southern California Freeway on Tuesday night, injuring eight people, one of them seriously, authorities said.

The bus was traveling west on the 10 Freeway shortly before 9 p.m. when the driver lost control and the vehicle hit a sound wall, then ricocheted across all of the freeway’s westbound lanes and struck the center divider. After that the driver got it back under control, and no other car was involved in the accident.

“She somehow did all of that without hitting another vehicle,” Capt. Dean Hartshorn of the Alhambra Fire Department said of the driver.

Eight of the bus’s 15 passengers were taken to hospitals. Seven appeared to have sustained only minor injuries, but one suffered “major trauma,” Hartshorn said. The passengers’ conditions were not immediately available.

The cause of the accident in this Los Angeles suburb just east of Los Angeles was under investigation. California Highway Patrol Officer Patrick Kimball said it was possible the driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel.

The accident closed all of the freeway’s westbound lanes for two hours.